Projects

This short film will explore issues of press freedom, censorship, and satire in the Republic of Guinea.

Asian elephants have been an integral part of social life in India for centuries – as war elephants, participants in temple rituals, heavy laborers, and recently in conservation discourse.

The main objective of this project is to report on the state of research and safeguarding of Amazigh intangible cultural heritage.

CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission, craft production, and leadership.

My project considers the way Ainu people, the Indigenous people of northern Japan, express identity and think about what being Indigenous means within their communities.

This project explores whether Chinese investment in Gwadar Port in Pakistan, located at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical lifeline in global trade, can contribute to a significant reordering of Central Asian trade flows in the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.

My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE.

This project seeks to unveil the mysteries of the recent detection of table salt in space.

My research examines how since Russia invaded Ukraine the European Union has budgeted and provided critical financial support from both the supranational EU level and the EU’s twenty-seven member states to aid President Zelensky and the Ukrainians.

Recent decades have seen a global shift away from the traditional self-regulation of the professions toward hybrid forms of regulation in which professions, the state, and market actors all play significant roles.